The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA) is a population-based, prospective study of foreign and US-born Latino respondents living in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California. The SALSA study is tracking the incidence of physical and cognitive impairment as well as dementia and cardiovascular diseases in elderly Latinos in the Sacramento region. Demographic information for study participant includes age given at follow-up visits, country of birth, language, religion, marital status, educational level, occupation, household income, and size of household.